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about rm122 per day per person generally it would be the same on perhentian kecil in pulau redang nasi lemak is rm15 00 half boiled egg is rm6 00 toast is rm5 00 the rest are about the same as in perhentian a cheap air conditioned room is around rm150 per night rm75 per person that would be as mediocre as the ones in perhentian a day would cost rm135 per person in tioman you could get a basic room at rm125 per night rm62 50 a meal can cost between rm20 to rm40 per person about rm80 to rm160 per day per person it costs rm74 return by bus to mersing from kl a six to seven hour journey you need to go on a ferry to get to tioman from mersing which will cost you rm70 return another 1 5 hour journey that s rm144 per person to get to pulau redang you would have to get on a bus to kuala terengganu which will cost you rm88 return six to seven hour journey and another 1 5 hour journey by ferry that will cost rm110 return that comes to rm198 per person to get to pulau perhentian a 8 hour bus journey to kuala besut can cost about rm100 return it costs rm70 return from the jetty to the islands making the total travel cost rm170 it costs rm90 return on a 7 hour bus journey to kuala perlis and rm46 return by ferry from kuala perlis on an hour s journey that makes rm136 per person you can also opt to go via kuala kedah and if you have extra to spare you can try other modes of travel plus there is so much more than just the beaches in langkawi you can find out more about travelling to langkawi and the things to do there by visiting this webpage looking at the comparisons langkawi is definitely value for money compared to the rest of the islands no doubt each island has its strengths and weaknesses and there are business owners that charge tourists exorbitantly but langkawi has so much more to offer and you have other alternatives to shop and eat there thus it makes me wonder why is langkawi being subjected to negative publicity is it because the state government is administered by people who headed by an outspoken menteri besar are not aligned to the federal government that would be unfair punishing the people of langkawi for making their democratic decision what is democracy then posted on november 7 2023 november 7 2023 the outlier sungai batu is dr shaiful idzwan shahidan pointed out that the sample that linked the sungai batu archaeological site to 788 bce is an outlier the malaysian national heritage department jwn organised a full day seminar on ancient kedah research and dating polemics in sungai petani on 4 november 2023 among the speakers was dr shaiful idzwan shahidan a consultant at usains unitech dr shaiful idzwan is an advocate of the bayesian method in archaeology an explicit probabilistic method for combining different sorts of evidence to estimate the dates of events that happened in the past and for quantifying the uncertainties of these estimates in answering the polemics of research and archaeological dating especially related to the sungai batu archaeological complex sbac he said that the radiocarbon dating of the sb2h site where the 788 bce sample was found sample 516413 should not be compared directly based on the depth of the spit because the level of the spit is different according to the actual contour of the site before being excavated dr shaiful idzwan said that the dating obtained from the yellow plots is reliable because it is representative of the whole site from the beginning until the final layer of culture a chronological model of the sb2h site showing the calibrated dating of samples from the site is further evidence that the 788 bce sample is an outlier an outlier is an observation that lies an abnormal distance from other values in a random sample from a population in fact sample 516413 does not specifically point to 788 bce as claimed but has a range between 788 bce to 537 bce however he said that any finding needs to be adapted to the historical and cultural context in this case the rest of the sbac samples have overwhelmingly been dated to the 2nd to the 8th century ce this range fits into not just the bujang valley narrative but coincides also with the existence of other maritime polities such as srivijaya china and india as well as nations that had once traded with ancient kedah a chronological model of the sb2h site at sbac showing sample 516413 as an outlier this narrative has been peer reviewed and accepted by experts on southeast asian archaeology we are aware that historical narratives can change with new findings hg quaritch wales the man who discovered the bukit batu pahat temple in 1936 dated the temple to the 7th to 8th century ce based on the data that was available to him during that era however more recent scholars have revised that to the 12th to 13th century ce the onus is on the jwn to come up with a narrative that has been proven peer reviewed and agreed upon by experts in southeast asian archaeology else the nation s historical narrative will be laughed upon by other nations posted on september 23 2023 bukit choras gem of a find a black slate stone with a 7th to 8th century ce pallava inscription w as amongst the most recent discoveries at bukit choras courtesy of the star amongst the finds that renowned archaeologist horace geoffrey h g quaritch wales discovered in 1936 in the bujang valley was the bukit choras temple site wales then dated it to the 4th century ce based on the shape of the type of mold used to make the basement of the structure wales 1940 7 however a recent excavation and research works conducted by the universiti sains malaysia s usm centre for global archaeological research cgar and the national heritage department nhd that took place between 28 august and 12 september 2023 have discovered two near perfect statues and an ancient inscription using the pallava script according to the star usm cgar senior lecturer dr nasha rodziadi khaw who led the excavation works said the finds from the temple site could date back to around the eighth or ninth century ad which is the same as most of the temple sites in the bujang valley and the development period of the srivijaya empire the uniqueness of the temple at this archaeological site is firstly how it has been preserved we can see that the condition of the walls in the north west and south areas are well preserved secondly we found two human sized structures made out of stucco and the discovery of stucco has not been reported in the bujang valley but only in sumatra and java nasha said at a press conference on friday 22 september 2023 nasha said based on preliminary research there is a similarity between the temple architecture in bukit choras and that of temples in west java and sumatra at the same time raising questions about the cultural relationship between kedah tua and other sites in south east asia he said the bukit choras archaeological site is considered to be special due to its isolated position north of gunung jerai whereas the other archaeological sites in the bujang valley are mostly situated south of gunung jerai in the areas around sungai merbok and sungai muda he however said his team still needed time to do more research perhaps over several years and this must be done on site before any conclusion can be made about the ancient site he also hoped his team can provide more information and data to add value to the history of kedah tua he added that the temple is also the biggest ever found in the bujang valley and it had interesting architecture what is more interesting is that the pallava inscription used a 7th to 8th century ce script but because it is believed to have been deposited at the temple during its construction the inscription itself is much older than the temple therefore it would not be surprising if upon completion of studies several years from now the temple is found to have existed only between the 9th or 10th century ce in consistence with the area s trade with the chola kingdom similarly an outlier sample caused the initial dating of the sungai batu site at 788bce only to be later confirmed by the former director of usm cgar datuk dr mokhtar saidin to have existed around the 1st and 2nd centuries ce the bukit choras temple is said to be the largest temple discovered in the bujang valley although not as large as the borobudur and angkor temples it would certainly be an archaeo tourism attraction for visitors to the area we certainly hope for more discoveries to be found when excavation works continue in the near future posted on july 18 2023 july 18 2023 making of a martyr even without sanusi around the momentum created by his arrest cannot be stopped pic courtesy of nst sanusi is an intelligent person what he lacks is finesse and decorum there is nothing classy about him like other politicians he forgets that he has been chosen to represent the voters to serve in hrh s government not his government not his party s government it is the sultan s government he can have fights with others but he should never drag the malay rulers into his quarrels but as crude and rude as he may be he hits the right notes with the people of kedah and those in the malay heartlands he is right about asking for a fair compensation for not being able to develop the muda basin to make kedah more palatable to investors in order to create more job opportunities he is also right in saying that legally pulau pinang still belongs to the sultanate of kedah the malay voters see him as a fighter one man fighting against the whole federal government the police may have the right to arrest him but sending 20 men at 3am shows lack of tact on the part of the police the timing was totally wrong no matter the excuse they knew where to find him all they had to do was wait and escort him to the courthouse after all he had been charged on two counts which are bailable offenses the anwar administration above all should have known this they have mustered lots of experience in this matter being subjected to raids and arrests prior to 9 may 2018 now sanusi has emerged from the courthouse a martyr even if he is absent there is no stopping the momentum posted on july 17 2023 history evolves so should our beliefs srivijaya was a maritime trade centre source anandajoti in 1912 british engineer adventurer travel writer and later television show host carveth wells arrived in pulau pinang to do a survey for the construction of railroads and roads in the malay peninsula after arriving in prai he saw several salt water crocodiles on the shore in his book six years in the malay jungle he mentioned how the locals believe that when a crocodile leaves the sea and enters the mangrove swamp it turns into a wild dog that may seem absurd to us all now but that and other theories of spontaneous generation such as dirty rags kept in closets will turn into rats were popularly accepted for two millenia it was people like pasteur and others who provided new scientific evidence to disprove of those absurd theories challenging established beliefs just as how those in my generation were told that malaya was colonised by britain and that melaka was established in 1400 through new evidences obtained by the release of classified documents we know now that we were never a colony of britain and that melaka was founded circa 1262 new evidences can shake the core of our historical beliefs there were so many things that we did not know about our independence and we believed everything the school text books had told us in the end we knew that the federation of malaya agreement 1957 was all about the transfer of executive powers back to the malay rulers and then to be delegated to a cabinet of ministers chosen from the various elected representatives who then replace the british officers to serve the rulers and their subjects merdeka was just a political cry to rally the voters of malaya to support the alliance rather than the independence of malaya party who first used merdeka as its election slogan what the above had done was to change the whole perception of the formation of this nation then it answers the rude claim by a certain politician in 2011 that the policemen who died in the bukit kepong tragedy in were british dogs shaking the core the late tony horwitz who authored the non fiction book confederates in the attic a book addressing the american civil war was very thorough in his research and was considered to be one of the authorities of the subject he visited virtually all the major battle sites one day he met anthropologist paul hawke at a major battle site in shiloh tennessee and the latter shook his belief hawke explained that previous interpretations of the battle of shiloh did not include one major artefact the ground itself the interpretations were made based on first hand accounts accounts of civil war veterans who gathered at the site in the past and as the new york public library narrated the loudest most influential and most repetitive veterans and the ones with the most to gain spoke with writers and journalists and their accounts were taken as the true accounts of the event and passed on to future generations in newspaper accounts and diaries but hawke found that first hand accounts and reports did not match the written histories after the battle of shiloh general ulysses grant ordered that the dead be buried on the line meaning where they fell as an anthropologist hawke went and looked for the burial ground and found that they did not align with generally accepted history the same treatment must be applied to the findings at sungai batu if previous samples dated in 2009 were found to have originated from 788 bce yet later with more advanced and sophisticated technology found that they existed only a millenium later the latter has to be accepted historical interpretations are not cast in stone the latest findings would have to be peer reviewed by others who are authorities in the matter before they can be accepted and that process is already academic it has been accepted that the sungai batu iron smelting industry had flourished only after the common era charting the past for our future through technological advancements with history evolving through emerging technologies new methods narratives and influences what sense do we make of the attempts to tell the truth to others as it is seen through thoughts and biases this is the question that we must ask ourselves and answer as more and more evidences will be available to us that will change the narrative that we believe in today and it is only up to us as lay persons and academicians to accept the latest findings with an open mind to bring to the present what has made us what we are today posted on july 5 2023 july 5 2023 the importance of cross referencing in setting historical facts did king shalmaneser i of assyria order the construction of a ziggurat in qalah kedah in 1 300bce or was it some place else in mesopotamia with the same name imagine that you are in melaka just after it w...